Waiting on a new computer...

My computer is screwed and I definitely can't scrapbook - I've been wanting to scrapbook my Christmas pictures since the weekend - I have to get a new one. 

So I went to PC World yesterday after waiting for twenty minutes for someone to help us every computer I liked was only available to order in which they could get by Thursday I told them to forget it and came home and ordered the same model I wanted online for £80 less than it was in the shop which was enough to order Microsoft Office and it will get delivered to my house on Thursday so no trip back to PC World.

So being computerless until tomorrow I babysat my niece and nephew tonight. We played Jenga did puzzles and my niece gave herself a pedicure.

Can't wait to get my computer back. 

Shanna

Feeling frustrated

So I went to Maplin and got the parts to fix my computer. It's easy to do the guy told - 90 minutes it took to get the part fitted and the computer willing to boot. It's taken me 40 minutes to get my wifi mouse to work and now I'm stuck trying to get my computer to recognise the fact that the Internet does exist. Some times I hate computers

Evernote

I’m home sick today, I managed to catch the cold/flu bug that’s been going around which in itself is enough it triggered an attack of my hiatal hernia so every time I sit up it feels like someone is squeezing my stomach and every time  I cough it gets worse.  So I’m lying here in my bed playing on my computer.  I’ve been working through my ancestors on ancestry.co.uk, I’m back to the 11th Century.  As I’ve been Googling to do some further research I keep coming up with pages I want to book mark so I can refer back to them.  As you can imagine my bookmark list was getting rather long, Googling I to see if I could find something to help I came up with Evernote.

 

I first heard of Evernote as one of I think Izzy’s product picks on the Paperclipping Round Table or  The Digi Show  but didn’t really pay attention to it. But since it’s free application (for the basic package) I downloaded it onto my computer and my iPhone.

 

I’ve been playing and clipping snippets of webpages for a few hours now and it’s great to have the bit of information I want stored in a specific notebook and it has a link to the page I got it from so if I want to go back for more information I can.

 

So far it seems to be working well.

 

Shanna.

First Computer.

When I was a kid we had some sort of Atari and we had SNES where my brother completed every game under the sun in a matter of days, but it is the memory of our first proper computer that stays with me.

In primary school we had one of those really old computers that had the six inch square discs and I have great memories of play a game called Granny's Garden.

But the first proper computer my family had was bought around in the mid nineties. The year is a little fuzzy but I remember it was a few days after Christmas my mum and I caught the train to Exeter and decided to walk to the Marsh Barton trading estate where PC World was housed to buy a computer. She had borrowed the money from my grandparents. I remember feeling excited as we walked, what we didn't realise was that it was over a two mile walk.

By the time we got their we were exhausted. I remember how big the store was and how many options we had. We spent about an hour choosing which model we wanted, and then I remember waiting as she filled out the paperwork. The excitement as we walked back to the train discussing our new purchase. The excitement when it arrive a few days later, setting it and figuring out how it all worked.

It took us a few years to get the Internet as my mum kept refusing but eventually broke down. It opened up a whole new world to us and led my mum to meeting my stepfather.

In the intervening years I've had three lap tops and now my own desktop but I'll always remember that computer.

Shanna xx